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Swamping Poems - Poems about Swamping

New Hope

...Peace and contentment can feel, 
An endless frustration to find, 
When mixed emotions take over, 
Swamping the thoughts in your mind.

In a constant state of limbo, 
Stuck between fight or flig...
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Categories: swamping, emotions, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVersailles

...In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.

It’s a five-star bash at the palace of Ve...
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Categories: swamping, boyfriend, fantasy, friendship, happy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Little Ants Sword

...
Sam is a novice gardener who stamps on all ants
He doesn't like them near or crawling on his plants
Their Queen was angry and wanted revenge
For the ones that had fallen she wanted to avenge.

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Categories: swamping, insect,
Form: Rhyme

The White Jasmine Lord

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         I

  first flowers open, seasons begin ! : 
  bloom before doom 
  as always

Rajasthani breeze sweet and scentful 
fanning out to the sunset :
a caress ! across the ripeness of ap...
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Categories: swamping, allegory, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLove's Last Heartbeat

...In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream of retracing their 
scin...
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Categories: swamping, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDena's Teenage Years

...When Dena and her girlfriend sneaked out of their houses at night, they both
would go and meet boys that they met during the daytime and they were their
boyfriends.  One day Dena was writing her co...
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Categories: swamping, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberBlues Boating Home

...Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy
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Categories: swamping, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberIt Is My Impression

...I would just like to say
that it is my impression
that longer hair
and other flamboyant affectations
are male dominant immersions
from sadly dull camouflage
into the birthright
and left
of hi...
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Categories: swamping, caregiving, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse

Eighty Four Voices

...Last Moments of the Crew 
of the Ocean Ranger?

Eighty-four voices cried out in the night 
In the roar of the wind driven seas. 
Help us, we're drowning, this rig's going down 
And we'll miss V...
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Categories: swamping, sea,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLifeboat the Hippo Appears

...Part 3

They quickly learned... there was cause for concern
     As the lifeboat was barely afloat.
When the Atheist turned and swiftly discerned,
    "A large Hippo is swamping our boat."

Th...
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Categories: swamping, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTorn

...Caught in the middle with nowhere to go
Between two strong-willed women
Manipulators according to their wiles
Related to one by blood
The other by dint of wedlock
Which one has the greater pull
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Categories: swamping, anger, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Clouds Hanging Over Me

...Clouds Hanging Over Me

dark clouds, ominous
feelings of dread swamping
me with foreboding
unable to get my breath
anxiety leading to yet another
panic attack to
disarm me
detach me from mys...
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Categories: swamping, depression, emotions, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Transformation

...In our
faces.
Constantly,
in our
faces.
Glowing
screens.
Pumping,
pumping out
information 
constant
Information.
Inundating, 
swamping
the mind.
Washing over,
coursing through.
Minds...
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Categories: swamping, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

Up In Arms

...

Another wave of voter vexation
is swamping the shutdown nation

To the left, 
the windpipes are hissing
To the right,
the windbags are dissing

And all of the kitchen cabinet apron...
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Categories: swamping, cry, howl, people, political,
Form: Ballad

My Prayers Never Cease Be

...My soul at dawn  awake
A magic light into my heart breaks
Solitary whispers shivering in awe
Towards the Infinite my whole upraised
Allah is the greatest.
A frisson of wonderment swamping to the...
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Categories: swamping, allah, beauty, blessing, islamic,
Form: Free verse

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